Definition of "pussyfooted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of pussyfoot. (verb)

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• "From the beginning Tim Geithner, supported by the president-elect and backed by Congressional leaders, pussyfooted around the issue of executive compensation in bailed out companies."
• "We're the party of guilt, I realize -- we've pussyfooted around the facts for a decade now."
• "Ed Kemmick, that putrid purveyor of pussyfooted prognostication, waxes nostalgic for the days when newspaper vituperation was in style."